Travel & Tourism: Vermont tourism industry out $700 million already vermontbiz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vermontbiz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Horse Barn at the former King George School in Sutton A decade ago, Eric Hudson and his maintenance staff kept the grounds of the King George School in Sutton immaculate: lawns and gardens manicured, walkways shoveled and swept, fences regularly painted white. After all, the affluent and mostly out-of-state parents whose high-school-age kids attended the therapeutic boarding school in the Northeast Kingdom paid hefty tuitions on par with those at many elite private colleges. These days, Hudson shows prospective buyers around the place; the 300-acre campus with sweeping vistas of the Green and White mountains has been on the market for almost a decade. Hudson is the sole caretaker and doesn t have much else to do at the shuttered school. One of his jobs is to keep the furnace running in the education building, aka Eddy. Otherwise, the radiant floor heating pipes would freeze and buckle the foundation.
By - Associated Press - Sunday, February 28, 2021
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The group that is overseeing the construction of the 93-mile Lamoille Valley Rail Trail across northern Vermont says it is open to the idea of having the state help pay to maintain the trail once it’s finished.
Ken Brown, of the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers, which has led the effort to build the cross-state multi-use trail for more than two decades, said he welcomes the conversation underway now with the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation over the expected $350,000 annual maintenance cost.
“It goes beyond being willing,” Brown said. “We’re supportive of the possibility.”
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